On 15/01/2019 13:42, Simo Sorce wrote:
On Tue, 2019-01-15 at 10:39 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Ben Cotton:
>
>> Remove real functionality from encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r,
>> and fcrypt from the libxcrypt.so.1 compatibility library and let those
>> functions set "errno" to "ENOSYS" when invoked.
>
> encrypt rewrites its argument in place, so this will leave the argument
> unencrypted. This does not seem a good idea, even if it's just DES.
Maybe encrypt with AES and return an error anyway ?
Or just fill the buffer with some constant - zero or 0xdeadbeef
or whatever = and return an error.
Tom
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